Showing posts with label Papal environmentalism. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Papal environmentalism. Show all posts

Wednesday, 11 February 2009

Now, even The Pope and Environment Minister Sam Wilson MP (who ?) has joined in...

...and when the late Pope John Paul stepped into the ring he helped to dismantle communism.
The wonderful Cranmer points out that Sam Wilson MP is in exemplary spiritual company by pointing out the pseudo-science behind Al Gore's environmental fantasies...
...Sam Wilson MP is Northern Ireland’s Environment Minister, (take note Rodney Hide) and he is persuaded that man-made global warming is an ‘hysterical pseudo-religion’. And so he has halted a government advertising campaign – which gave people ‘the impression that by turning off the standby light on their TV they could save the world from melting glaciers and being submerged in 40ft of water’ – denouncing it as ‘insidious propaganda’...
...Sammy Wilson will find a religio-political soul-mate in Pope Benedict XVI. For he too has dared to challenge the orthodoxy of the political aspects of the global warming movement around the world. While Sammy Wilson calls for ‘reasoned debate’, the Pope has also demanded the application of the scientific method to counter the hysteria surrounding the half-baked theories of pseudo-scientists and ignoramuses like Al Gore. The Pope is proving himself to be the defender of the protestants of postmodernity, confronting head-on the climate change ‘prophets of doom’ with the warning that any solutions to global warming ‘must be based on firm evidence and not on dubious ideology’. Truth is not made by consensus...
...he is quite right: no amount of money is ever going to control solar activity, no matter how well-meaning the religious fervour which underpins the theory, or how sincere the fanatical zealots who propagate it. The notion of man-made global warming is a political agenda to deprive people of their liberty, property, and livelihoods. They shall be taxed in their homes, in their cars, on aeroplanes and on trains. They might even be taxed for breathing...more here...
...and how the panic-stricken BBC report the shocking news...